Texas Blog Part 4 - Home.

To those waiting breath bated, for this final blog about Texas - well the wait is over. Did that come across sarcastic? Good. Anyways - I left off Day 7 when we were in the desert. That day we left to Midland and shot some exteriors there and then drove back towards our camp which we stopped to get some epic shots of an oil derek and a moving train - which turned out to be the Ian's favorite shots. We came back to camp exhausted and Sarah and Carlton took a nap. Myself and Brennen after dumping the footage went atop a large sand dune and did some dune jumping which was awesome.

Carlton joined us and we picked the spot where we were going to shoot the sunset. We walked back to our camp site which didn't really seem that far - then we gathered the jib arm, 2 tripods, 2 cameras, a sand bag and 40 pounds of weights. The three of us treked across desert and the hot sand to capture the trips most epic footage - jib shots in the desert at sunrise. The walk then seemed A LOT further.

That night Carlton got the truck stuck - the park ranger the next morning wasn't happy but he pulled us out. Carlton claims that he only got the truck stuck a little bit and me and Brennen did the rest while trying to get it out. After getting our truck out - we packed up everything and left the camp site which had been our home for two days. On Wednesday at 2:45pm, after shooting some more exteriors in Midland, we decided to head home.

Between myself and the two Ian's we each did shifts of 5-6 hours of driving. We drove through the night and after lots of energy drinks, sunflower seeds and coffee we finally arrived back in Canada late Thursday night/Early Friday morning.

The trip as a whole was a fantastic experience and after looking at some of the footage I can't wait to see things come together in the coming months. I shall leave with these words from a song that we listened to over and over on the trip:

"Alabama, Arkansas, I do love my Ma and Pa
Not in the way I love you.
Holy moley me oh my you're the apple of my eye
Girl I never loved one like you.
Home, Let me go home. Home is wherever I'm with you."

MK